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"What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? What if, for someone of us, we can't get there any other way?"
-Donna Tartt (from The Goldfinch)
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"It's an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way."
-Rollo May Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected."
-Rollo May “Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our [community]. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around [them]. This is what our society needs — not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and [superheroes], but persons who can 'be', that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.”
-Rollo May "To enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more."
- Herman Melville, The Whale "Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness."
-Carl Jung "What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
-Helen Keller "Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable."
-Anthony De Mello "Rest until you feel like playing; then play until you feel like resting. Period. No guilt. No coercion.
-Martha Beck "Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it."
- Jon Kabat-Zinn |
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